Auction 10 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Get Pashut – Constantinople, 1719 – Glosses by Rabbi Chaim Nissim Abulafia
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Sold for: $1,875
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ISefer Get Pashut, on Hilchot Gitin, by Rabbi Moshe ben Haviv. Constantinople, 1719. First edition.
Scholarly glosses in oriental handwriting. Signatures and various ownership inscriptions on title page, glosses. Signature "it is mine HAN"A". [Some glosses in his own handwriting]. Ownership inscription by Moshe Lisbona. On leaf preceding title page appears Rabbi Yitzchak Abulafia's signature.
The Ga'on Rabbi Chaim Nissim Abulafia – HAN"A (1774-1861), a leading sage of Tiberias, Jerusalem and Eretz Yisrael. As of 1856 served as Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem - the "Rishon Le-Zion". (His father, the Ga'on Yitzchak was grandson of Rabbi Chaim Abulafia, establisher of settlement in Tiberias, and he himself was also one of the leading rabbis and founders of Tiberias). See attached material.
[2], 143 leaves. 32cm. Heavy paper, good-fair condition, moth-holes. Ancient elaborate leather binding, worn and damaged
Scholarly glosses in oriental handwriting. Signatures and various ownership inscriptions on title page, glosses. Signature "it is mine HAN"A". [Some glosses in his own handwriting]. Ownership inscription by Moshe Lisbona. On leaf preceding title page appears Rabbi Yitzchak Abulafia's signature.
The Ga'on Rabbi Chaim Nissim Abulafia – HAN"A (1774-1861), a leading sage of Tiberias, Jerusalem and Eretz Yisrael. As of 1856 served as Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem - the "Rishon Le-Zion". (His father, the Ga'on Yitzchak was grandson of Rabbi Chaim Abulafia, establisher of settlement in Tiberias, and he himself was also one of the leading rabbis and founders of Tiberias). See attached material.
[2], 143 leaves. 32cm. Heavy paper, good-fair condition, moth-holes. Ancient elaborate leather binding, worn and damaged
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